by DaLea Ellis

Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God.” Ether 12:4
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by Dave Ellis

“What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.” ~Thomas Carlyle

Yes, traditions are powerful; they remind us of our past, direct us towards our future and comfort us in the present. Before you recheck the name at the top of the article to make sure this is still Dave Ellis, I will say that I’m talking about the tradition of Ward Turkey Bowls.
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Caring for others, the focus of this issue of Desert Saints Magazine, goes to the very heart of membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Indeed, it is the heart of all Christianity. The idea and the practice of looking out for others’ needs as we all walk through this road of life are a comfort and a blessing.
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Letter From The Editor

Letter from the Editor

Sunstone Dental owners Brad and Greg Welch, DDS, know how important supporting their community is to those living there.

The brothers not only donate their time to the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, they also incorporate their dental practice into many community service efforts throughout the year. Greg serves as the first counselor bishop for the Las Palmas Ward and Brad serves as an advisor to young men at the Silverado Ward.
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The hymn “Because I Have Been Given Much” is a family anthem for Glenn and Elisabeth Bingham, formerly of Henderson, Nevada, but now residing in St. George, Utah. It underscores their desire to serve underprivileged people in countries all over the world.
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by Andrea Lauritzen

When I was a teenager, our whole mutual group provided a special and unexpected Christmas for a struggling family in our ward. The girls and the leaders prepared for this project for several weeks. The young women were given clothes sizes and a wish list for the four or five young children, and each youth was assigned to buy a specific gift for one of the family members.
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by Tina Scott

Waking up one morning, I remembered a dream I’d had during the night. I was to take Sister Baker, an elderly widow in my ward a loaf of homemade cinnamon bread. Shaking my dream off, I realized that I didn’t know the woman well enough to just randomly show up at her door and hand her a loaf of bread. In fact, I didn’t even know where she lived. And why cinnamon bread?
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The Tule Springs Stake, in the Northwest part of the Las Vegas Valley, has a deep commitment to humanitarian service. Thanks to the dedicated work of stake and ward Relief Society leaders, that commitment has produced wonderful results for children from the Las Vegas Valley all the way to Zambia, Africa.
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Rick and Sheri Neilson’s family enjoys high adventure.

Together they have spelunked through deep caves, rappelled off high cliffs, and white-water rafted down mighty rivers. They even climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

But this Thanksgiving, the Green Valley Stake family will embark on their greatest adventure yet - a humanitarian service trip to the impoverished village of Salkantay high in the Incas of Peru.
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Overwhelmed by the number of people on her Christmas list, Jean Rhodes of St. George, Utah, decided ten years ago that something needed to change. She planned that year to send stockings to everyone. Simple enough, she thought. But with six children and four in-laws, their 22 children and spouses and 24 great grandchildren, it wasn’t so simple after all.
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Elder John H. Groberg came onto many people’s radar screens a few years ago when The Other Side of Heaven, his best-selling account of his mission in Tonga, was made into a major motion picture. But Elder Groberg’s life has been an extended saga of caring for others, often due to his callings in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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by Robyn Heirtzler

As I sat in a chapel staring at my grandmother’s flower-draped casket, I racked my mind for personal recollections of her. I had barely known her before she had her stroke. I could count my memories with her on one hand.
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For one hundred years, researchers have looked for the parents of Absalom Pennington born 1752 in either Virginia or North Carolina according to family church records. While in a state of hubris, I decided to use “Standard Genealogical Procedure” to see if I could discover his father.
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